Why don't you refute his points instead of posting stupid gifs? Is it because you can't?
He can't.
My take is literally the first response in this thread, Sony doesn't have enough manpower to support both a handheld and a home console at the same time (plus VR to boot and their one team that does PC ports.)
That's the truth.
Sony doesn't have enough manpower to support their home-console and VR headset RIGHT NOW.
Remember these upcoming big 1st party VR games for PSVR2? Well I don't. Maybe Firewall Ultra, which is pretty much a remaster of the PSVR1 game but as a "complete edition" with better graphics on UE5. That's it.
PS5? What a great 1st party year Sony had/has. MLB The Show and.... Spider-Man 2. The rest were PC ports or DLC.
Microsoft is buying publishers so they can reach their target of releasing 4 big games every year + a few AA games. That's why they keep buying publishers and more indy studios.
Meanwhile Sony always has one good year (2022) followed by one slow/bad year (2023). Because they don't have enough manpower/studios.
They can't support their own home-console and VR headset with enough 1st party content. And then you have these clueless nerds who want another Sony handheld when even Nintendo realized that the mobile-gaming audience moved on to mobile phones, so they had to exit the handheld biz and create a hybrid home-console.
To those of you proposing a handheld PS4. Thats a lot more complex than it sounds. You would need to shrink the internals and figure out a way to do usable battery support. Plus you'd have to have a way to get games on it, either re-optimizing all the games (especially third parties which bloated their crap needlessly in a way Switch never allowed) or having physical carts like Switch did. This will also limit the BC because even with shared accounts tons of people brought their PS libraries physical, with that being the lion's share of the market pre-covid. I also just don't think people will be hyped to buy a new console to play 8 year old games. Even if the games are great, even if there's a ton of them. Its just not how consumers have thought, historically.
It's literally just a small group of people feeling some nostalgia when they think about the old Game Boy, PSP or 2DS days. A Sony handheld in 2023 makes no sense. People are playing on their mobile phones. Sony knows that. Nintendo knows it. That's why Sony created PlayStation Mobile.
A PS5 peripheral like the Q-Lite handheld for remote-play is all you will get because you don't have to develop games for it. It's just another way to play PS5 games.
The handheld era is over. And I love when people bring up the Steam Deck (or ASUS), which literally only sold 3 million units so far. That would be a huge flop for a Vita 2 or Nintendo handheld.
So no, a Sony handheld makes no sense. They are already struggling to make enough 1st party content for the PS5 and PS VR2. Wanna play PS4 or PS5 games in your bed or while you sit on your toilet? Go get the Q-Lite.
Dude, don't just outright troll. You know damn well people aren't asking for a separate game library having handheld, in efgect Vita 2. They're still doing PS4 games, ports etc, if not Sony then 3rd parties. Don't waste the man power porting to PC and giving your games to Valve, having a space lacking in the market for Valve to occupy. At least that way the sales go 70-30 for Sony, or re-buys/up-sell on cross gen bundles.
I think I understand the comparison, we'd like a PS4 Nomad in essence? Granted, we'd likely have to accept that as digital only.
The PC ports strategy isn't "a waste". Stop being all butthurt because a small group of people in the PC community can play some Sony 1st party games. That's literally what your problem is. The same goes for Bryank75.
"Oh noes, some PC dudes can play God of War and Uncharted. I don't feel special anymore".
Sony already explained that very small teams at Nixxes are doing these ports. It's not a 30 or 50 dev team working on one port. They're very small teams. So one PC port selling 300k - 1mio copies is already making them some nice profit. It's not a waste at all. Selling a flopping handheld no one wants is literally a L-strategy. See Vita.
Once again: When even Nintendo, the king of handhelds with a ton of successful IPs for handhelds, saw the signs on the wall and bailed out of the handheld biz, .... well then you should know that the handheld era is over.
Nintendo home-console hybrid & PlayStation Mobile = The way to go for both companies.
